LSU football player’s fiancée does not ask for protection after alleged attack

BATON ROUGE – LSU football player Jevonte Domond’s fiancée told East Baton Rouge Parish District Court Judge Mike Erwin at a bond hearing Wednesday that she does not fear Domond, whom she told Sheriff’s office deputies on Monday strangled her, picked her up by the neck, dropped her and threw her.

Domond’s fiancée, whose name has been omitted from sheriff’s office and court records, also did not ask Erwin for a protective order from Domond, who was expected to be released from jail Wednesday on a $3,000 bond set by Erwin. Erwin did say if Domond had any future such incidents with his fiancée or even “looked at her wrong,” he would see to it that Domond returned to jail.

Domond, 22, was charged on Monday with felony battery of his fiancée, who told sheriff’s deputies she was leaning over looking at their baby at the time Domond picked her up from behind. Domond was booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish jail on Monday. The baby was unharmed, East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s office spokesperson Casey Rayborn Hicks said Tuesday.

LSU coach Les Miles indefinitely suspended Domond, a reserve junior college transfer offensive tackle from Glendale Community College in Arizona.

“It’s a crime that we cannot condone and behavior that we will not tolerate,” Miles told the Baton Rouge Advocate on Tuesday at the Southeastern Conference spring meetings in Destin, Florida.

During an argument with his fiancée on Monday, the 6-foot-6, 310-pound Domond allegedly lifted the woman off the ground by the back of her neck, then dropped her, according to the Sheriff’s office initial report obtained by Gannett Louisiana. The woman told deputies that Domond also picked her up and “slammed her on the couch” and bit her. Deputies said the woman said she started to lose consciousness and black out, but managed to spray Domond with pepper spray multiple times.

Domond later told the Sheriff’s office in a statement that he neither strangled nor did he bite his fiancé and that she previously pulled a kitchen knife on him. He said he did pick her up, but to make her stop dousing him with pepper spray.

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